Background
Pankow was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. Pankow grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, and attended Maine South High School and Northeastern Illinois University.
Pankow was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. Pankow grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, and attended Maine South High School and Northeastern Illinois University.
He is a series regular on the Showtime/British Broadcasting Corporation series "Episodes", playing Merc Lapidus, the volatile head of a major United States. television network. Pankow, a veteran actor of stage, film and television, appeared for seven seasons as Ira Buchman on the National Broadcasting Company sitcom Mad About You. Pankow is a series regular on the Showtime/British Broadcasting Corporation series Episodes playing American television executive Merc Lapidus.
He played federal agent John Vukovich opposite William Petersen and Willem Dafoe in.
Merton of the Movies (1980) The Slab Boys (1980) Forty-Deuce (1981) Hunting Scenes From Lower Bavaria (1981) Amadeus (1981) Cloud Nine (1982) Jazz Poets at the Grotto (1982) Henry V (1984) The Iceman Cometh North Shore Fish (1987) Two Gentlemen of Verona (1987) Serious Money (1987) Italian American Reconciliation (1988) Aristocrats (1989) Ice Cream with Hot Fudge (1990) Scheherazade (1992) The Tempest (1995) Baby Anger (1997) Measure for Measure (2001) Barbra"s Wedding (2003) Twelve Angry Men (2004) The Prime of Mission Jean Brodie (2006) Cymbeline (2007) Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (2009) Keep Your Pantheon (2009) School (2009) Equivocation (2010) Taming of the Shrew (2012) Medieval Play (2012) Natural Affection (2013) Much Ado About Nothing (2014) Dada Woof Papa Hot (2015).
He is the younger brother of trombonist/composer James Pankow, a founding member of the legendary rock group Chicago.